Faecal occult blood screening: Knowledge, attitudes, and practice in four Hong Kong primary care clinics

Hong Kong Medical Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 350-357

  Tam, Tammy K W ^a   Ng, K K ^a   Lau, C M ^a   Lai, T C ^a,b   Lai, W Y ^a   Tsang, Luke C Y ^a  

^a Department of Health   (Hong Kong)

^b Baptist Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasms; Mass screening; Occult blood

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER STAGING; COLON POLYP; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY CANCER; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SURVEY; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCULT BLOOD TEST; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ADENOMA; AGED; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 83155168338     PISSN: 10242708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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